Fantasia Film Festival 2026

The always-amazing Fantasia Film Festival will celebrate its 30th edition from July 16 through August 2nd , 2026, and we have remote press access. The program kicks off with Nicholas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell and closes with Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein‘s Freaks Part II.

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With over 125 features and 200+ shorts, it’s a pretty daunting line-up of genre delights, but here are 5 essential films that are set to be unmissable.

1. Attack on Paradise

WORLD PREMIERE

Director : Bob Colaers Genre: Action

Cast: Achmed Akkabi, Jamal Ben Saddik, Said Boumazoughe

Police raid an Antwerp apartment complex made into a fortress by a local drug lord. Former resident Suleyman has been released from a seven year stretch and is determined to rescue his mother from the impending carnage.

Described as ” the exhilarating ass-kicker of Fantasia 2026″ this Belgian smackdown promises outrageous set-pieces and fist pumping heroic bloodshed.